Celebrating Christmas - Part 1 - Mosley

This weekend we went to Wisconsin to celebrate Christmas with my family.  My brother Jamie and his wife Dana were gracious enough to host us.  It is a lot of work and Dana has kids all week in her in-home daycare so the extra noise is borderline too much.  At least it would be for me.  Fortunately, Dana has way more patience than I do!

I was surprised to wake up and see snow!  We would have a white Christmas for at least 1 of our celebrations.

We had a lot of good food and yummy treats!  The girls had fun playing with their boy cousins and all their trains, cars and Batman toys.  The other favorite thing to do at Christmas besides eat and play:  open gifts!   Both girls received some fun gifts they were excited about.

 new watch for her AG doll Ruthie from Uncle Luke

 a new watch for Emily from Uncle Luke

 school backpack for Ruthie from Aunt Ashley

 a new watch for Shelby from Papa & Nonny Moe

 kitchen utensils for the little cook from Papa and Nonny

 so excited about her gift from Aunt Ashley

 a guitar for Emily!

(it is really cool and actually plays!)

 Nonny and Morgan checking out the cooking utensils

 her favorite gift - a new doll she can give a real bath to

from Papa and Nonny

 1 of my favorite games as a kid

from Papa and Nonny

 Caleb had Morgan's name

he gave her the bathtub to give the new baby a bath in!

 this pic is fuzzy because of her dramatic reaction

Noah had Shelby's name

 Noah's gift to Shelby

a FurReal kitty cat

 Shelby's watch she got from P&N

 Shelby with my Uncle Dwayne

she put that hat on him and than asked him if he was Santa or an elf?

he said an elf

 Shelby reading The Elf on the Shelf book to Morgan & Ian

(Ian is Ashley's boyfriend's son)

the view on the way home

the flat land of IL is good for something

a clear view of a beautiful sunset!

(look close the cloud has a face in it)

1 tired out elf!

cuddling the bathtub box

Poor Morgs.  Shortly after getting home, Nate pulled out the oatmeal raisin cookies my mom made for his stocking.  Morgan wanted one and I suggested they check with Nonny to see is she put nuts in them. Nate figured he could tell if he took a bite.  He didn't taste any so he passed the rest of the cookie to Morgan.  I was helping Shelby with her homework so it took a while for me to notice she had disappeared.  She had planted herself in the bathroom in front of the toilet.  I called Nonny and she confirmed that although there are not a lot of nuts in the cookies, she did put some in.  Sure enough, after a little bit, Morgs got sick.  I guess that answers any question concerning whether or not she had grown out of the tree nut allergy.  It's still there at a high level.  Sorry Morgs!